Trump’s power and by extension his entire movement are built around the idea that by asserting something you manifest it in reality. Even if it’s not true many people will behave as if is so you can get away with it.
It is alarmingly effective in law, domestic politics. It cannot unblock a strait.
Sen. Rick Scott in 2022: “The buck stops with one person. Joe Biden made your gas prices go up. He did it. He actually did it.”
Scott today, 14 months after Trump took over: "Unfortunately, [gasoline] prices are gonna be up for a while."
You really need to watch this whole clip. It's amazing.
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JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House.
Dem Bobbi Boudman has won today’s special election, NHJournal reports.
(Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.)
This is Dems’ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
What is wrong with you? bsky.app/profile/pale...
And yet -- why why why?! bsky.app/profile/pale...
18 Dems just voted *today* for Trump’s agenda. Does it make sense yet why they’re so unpopular?
i am far less interested in why trump voters like rogan feel betrayed and far more interested in why they believed trump in the first place, given his previous presidency
So when are Republican lawmakers going to admit this president is endangering not just the U.S. but the entire globe and stop him before he does even more damage?
oh my goodness -- watch Mike Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, and McClain clap like seals for Trump for nearly two minutes straight. None of them want to be the first to stop!
Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
This goes here bsky.app/profile/tony...
Shoes for the boys, face surgery for the girls. Still easier to be one of Trump's boys probably
QUINTANILLA: Do we think the Russians have shared intel about US military assets, and if so, why would we be giving waivers on oil sanctions?
WITKOFF: I can tell you that on the call with POTUS, the Russians said they have not been sharing. That's what they said. We can take them at their word.
This Justin Fox?
He does look exactly like what you would get if you asked ChatGPT to generate a photo of a sentient racist lacrosse stick
Justin Fox taking an essay test in college: I don't feel comfortable getting into details because it's really complicated and requires a level of understanding that I don't have so I'll just refer you back to the books and lectures of the course that cover that material. It's all there.
This DOGE staffer's name is Justin Fox. I can't tell if he's completely incompetent, or just abjectly cynical. But he should get credit by name for the immeasurable damage he has done.
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
Normally when someone is this deluded, you'd ask them to name the president to see how far they're really gone
america is the land of opportunity. you could become a navy seal, and then even a US senator, and before you know it you’re breaking a marine veteran’s arm with no repercussions. greatest country on earth.
This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society.
And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
A screenshot from the New York Stock Exchange website saying that America 250 is ringing the opening bell tomorrow at 6:26 a.m.
I shit you not America 250 is ringing the opening bell at the NYSE tomorrow www.nyse.com/_events/NDE1...
It's a shame that Peter Thiel's ocean pontoon city thing was abandoned. It would be great for them all to go far away from everyone.
This morning: “We’re gonna blow the hell outta these people.”
Tonight: “Please be careful.”
Mackenzie Scott is just kicking the ass of all the other billionaires on the stuff that matters www.wsj.com/finance/cryp...
